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Friday, April 6, 2018

Iko Uwais, Dave Bautista, And Kumail Nanjiani Team Up For Action-Comedy 'Stuber'

Iko Uwais, Dave Bautista, and Kumail Nanjiani are not three
actors I automatically associate. Sure, I could see Uwais and Bautista team up
for a low-down DTV actioner. By the same token, I can imagine Bautista and
Nanjiani in a mismatched buddy actioner. But it looks like all three are about
to team up for an action comedy called Stuber.

Deadline reports that Iko Uwais has joined 20th Century Fox’s
Stuber, which already stars Dave Bautista and Kumail
Nanjiani, though that’s all news to me. A human person named Tipper Clancy
wrote the script, while Michael Dowse will direct. Dowse is probably best known
for helming Goon, but he’ll always have a special place in
my heart for Fubar, which gave us all-timer lines like, “Turn
down the suck, turn up the good,” and, “I suggest you take up another sport,
like knitting.”

Stuber follows a hard-nosed detective
(Bautista), who commandeers an Uber, driven by Nanjiani. The action unfolds
over a single night, and it presumably involves them tracking down a villain of
some sort. All in all, it sounds like a more comedic
Collateral.

There aren’t any details on Uwais’ character, but if I had to guess, I suspect
the Raid and Headshot star plays the
villain, or at least one of the villain’s primary henchmen. As long as he has
ample opportunity to pummel dudes about the head and neck, I’m cool with
whatever role he has.

I just hope they don’t try to make him too funny, that’s…not
his strong suit. And between Nanjiani, Bautista, Dowse, and producers John
Frances Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (the duo who penned Spider-Man: Homecoming and are directing Flashpoint, or
whatever DC’s Flash movie winds up being called), the comedy should be in solid
hands.

That’s all there is to know about Stuber
for the moment, but that’s certainly more than enough to keep me interested for
a good long while.